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okay, i have a newbie question: with shared hosting, am i allowed to install software? or would i need to have dedicated hosting for that? for example, if i wanted to run a game server, would i need to get dedicated hosting? thanks in advance! sorry i'm such a newbie!

thanks for the prompt reply! i'll wait and see if i can make to the end of the month before submitting a ticket. thanks again

hello, i just got a message saying that i've hit 80% of my bandwidth capacity. on my control panel, it says i've hit roughly 8.5GB of traffic. it also says i have a silver plan. on the TCH page that lists the plans, the bandwidth limit on the silver plan is 20GB (and storage is at 850MB). should i ignore this bandwidth warning? i read in other forum posts that TCH is in the process of migrating existing plans to the new plan specs. are you still in this process? how long can i expect before all existing customers' plans become compliant? will i be charged for traffic that exceeds the old limit, but doesn't exceed the new limit? thanks!

thanks for your help, guys! much appreciated.

looks like that doesn't help.

no worries i'm starting to think it's not possible now.. i guess i'll have to set the include path all the time like raul mentioned

that's what i already have and it doesn't work. include_path is getting replaced with what's in the double quotes. what i'd like is a way to append the current include_path with what's in the quotes, so as to preserver the include_path set by you guys at TCH. thanks though.

thanks for the suggestion. do let me know if you figure out the .htaccess problem though. i'm always happy to learn new things. i scoured the net and i can't seem to find an example where you're appending to the include_path instead of redefining it. by the way, do you have any idea what, if any, performance difference there is between using the .htaccess method as opposed to creating a common include? does one way scale better than the other? just curious. again, thanks for your help!

thanks, raul! you nailed it. if i'm not mistaken, ini_set only changes my settings for the duration of the script, right? if i want to set my include path for all scripts, could i use the .htaccess file? how do i do it there? right now, i'm simply using this: >php_value include_path '.:/home/mysite/public_html/test/core:/home/mysite/public_html/test/site:/home/mysite/public_html/test/_lib/_base:/home/mysite/public_html/test/_lib/_classes' i'm a newbie at editing .htaccess files so you'll have to excuse me is there a way i can put the current include_path into my new definition? something like this: >php_value include_path '$include_path:/home/new/path' this exact syntax doesn't work of course. how do i reference variables in .htaccess? is there a better way? the book i got the sample code from used something similar. thanks for your help!

hi, i'm testing out some sample code that uses the PEAR module and i'm having trouble with this. the file has "require_once("DB.php")" but for some reason it can't find it. are you sure i don't need to set the include_path? i'm on server35 if that makes any difference. my error message is as follows (am i understanding it incorrectly?): thanks for you help!

thanks for the fast response! as always, i can expect great service from you guys.

help! my cpanel and webmail are down! what's going on? any TCH guys out there? let me know if i need to open up a help ticket. http://www.schmingle.com/cpanel http://www.schmingle.com/webmail Edited to remove active links by Andy

hi, i just registered a new domain and bought a hosting plan friday, but the account's not up yet. i have a charge on my credit card and i have an email receipt from mypaysystems.com -- what did i do wrong? when i use the payment link that came from the TCH email, i get the following error message: "Product ID not registered within the database. Please check the referring URL and try again. If you are having problems integrating TotalCart into your web site, please contact our support staff at support@paysystems.com." i submitted a ticket at the help desk and rick replied once to my original post, but i haven't heard anything back regarding my subsequent posts. i've had this billing problem before with a previous domain/hosting plan and bill kish was able to help me then. someone please help/respond! thanks, khang

thanks! i'll go ahead and submit a help ticket for that.

hi, i'd like to get osCommerce installed as well. but i don't know what server i'm on -- how do i find out? sorry, i'm pretty new at this. thanks! k*

RE: ian yikes! that's what i had feared! is it possible to chmod 777 directly before and after our scripts need to write to that folder? (effectively, only allowing select "windows" of general access.) there must be some way to protect our folders; otherwise, it would seem that any server allowing back-end scripts write/exec access pose a security problem. in my case, i'm taking uploaded images, resizing them, and writing them to a specified directory. should i save myself the permissions hassle and simply save them into my DB? side question: do i take a performance hit by storing image files in my DB as opposed to simply leaving them in the file system? thanks! k*

.. and totally unrelated to anything, but i thought i'd share with everyone anyway since i got a real kick out of it! go to eBay and look up item #2940031944. enjoy! k*

thanks for the quick reply! Thumbs Up i'm using this script: http://kentung.f2o.org/scripts/thumbnail/resize.txt there's nothing in the folder (of course, until something is uploaded and written). it's the folder itself whose permission i had to change (i did this from the cPanel file manager). 775 and 644 don't seem to work. any other ideas? by the way, i'm using php. thanks! k*

hi everyone, this is my first post, so sorry if i'm asking a dumb question. here goes: in implementing an image resizer, i discovered that i needed to change permissions on my destination folder. the only way i got it to work was to set the permissions to 777 (user: rwx, group: rwx, world: rwx) on the specified folder. but now i'm worried that i've just sent out an open invitation to hackers everywhere. the original permissions on the folder were 550 -- what should they be at minimum to allow my php script to write there? thanks in advance for your help! k*